>I'v finally started to figure out the CursorAdapter
>
>One thing I'm not sure on is this; What is the
>point of using a CursorSchema.
>
>If the SelectCmd is set to
>

>"select * from mytable"
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>or
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>"select field1, field2, field3 from mytable"
>

>
>you end up with the stucture you want.
>
>So what's the point of CursorSchema?

If you're talking to something like SQL Server, which only has DateTime fields, you can set-up the cursor schema to do things like automatically convert to a Date field. VFP can't always know what the "real" format of the data should be, so the schema let's you be very specific about it.